Create your own at Storyboard ThatOrleanna begs Ruth for relief from her guilt. She says "If you are the eyes in the trees, watching as we walk away from Kilanga, how will you make your judgment? Lord knows after thirty years I still crave your forgiveness." When Orleanna and her 3 daughters leave Kilanga in the deluge of rain, they head toward the neighboring town of Bulungu In the trip going back, Leah succumbs to malaria. After Leah recovers enough to travel, she decides to stay with Anatole and marry him, rather than rejoin her mother and sister. Adahenrolls at Emory University in Atlanta, determined to eventually go to medical school. Science has become her religion. Anatole is imprisoned for his revolutionary activities and after he has been imprisoned for three years, he is released and he marries Leah. Leah is studying agronomics there and is pregnant with her second child.